"C. Diff," as it is commonly called among the gastric groupies, is a tough little bug that patients are increasingly catching in hospitals and nursing homes.Now, how does this work exactly? Do they dose you with your own, or just scoop something out of the nearest bedpan?
Although antibiotics are now the first mode of attack, a growing number of gastroenterologists like Dr. Lawrence Brandt of the Montefiore Medical Center, in New York, believe that, in some cases, injecting excrement either by enema or through a gastric tube inserted in the nose is more effective.
Oh, wait. Here's the answer.
"There are some donor banks in Australia, but here in the U.S., we use fresh stool from donors," Brandt said.Well, that's a relief. I wouldn't want 'em shootin' me up with just any old poop.
Just as blood donors are screened, so, too, are those who supply doo-doo.
(BTW - vault custodian at an Australian poop bank. Not just a job; a calling)
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ReplyDeleteThis is worse than putting the toothpaste back into the tube!
ReplyDelete"Get stuffed!" just took on new meaning.
ReplyDeleteYuck!!!!!
ReplyDeleteAah, an employment opportunity here in Aus.
ReplyDeleteWell I've worked as radioactive waste disposer - with Geiger counter and all.
Actually I also disposed of E Coli cultures for a lab, grown in Yeast medium. So there were some visiting American researchers who we were persuading to eat Vegemite. 'That's the same stuff we grow E Coli in. No Thanks!'. They had a point. Here is Australia we 'eat pieces of sh*t for breakfast' to quote Happy Gilmore.
w/v: tursesse !!!
Isophorone: Now, that's hilarious!
ReplyDeleteServes y'all right for getting dumped on in The Ashes.
ReplyDeleteAustralia has an offical whale whisperer so why not an official poop bank. Who regulates and examines this bank anyway, the Department of Excavation or Weights and Measures?
So who fist came up with the idea of shoving shit up somebody's nose?
ReplyDeleteI'm guessing Joe Biden.
1. http://www.slate.com/id/2282768
ReplyDelete2. "It's true there's been no major clinical trial of fecal transplants, but the procedure appears in the medical literature at least as far back as 1958. That's when a Denver-based surgeon named Ben Eiseman performed four of the procedures to rid patients of a form of colitis thought to be caused by C. diff."
Cheers
Donors?! Say what, Doc? You want to put a tube up the nose and funnel in, what? (insert sound of running feet)
ReplyDeleteIf they need donors then I think t C. Diff isn't the only worry. Might have to put that tube somewhere else, and pump something else.
Do the gastricphiles get a choice of donor like a fertilizaton clinic? Bet they pay through the nose too.
Deborah Leigh